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Lilith's Brood, by Octavia E Butler
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9 years ago
I recently posted an article about the aftermath of the 2015 Hugo Awards, and all the Sad Puppy drama that swirled around them. Lots of authors' names were cited in all the articles I read on...
The Magicians, by Lev Grossman
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9 years ago
One of the fun things about the "year's end / New Year" period is all the "year's best whatever" lists that float around the Internet. Those lead to Youtube binges, to stashing a ton of books on...
Evans Above, Evan Help Us, Evanly Choirs, ... by Rhys Bowen
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9 years ago
A Welsh village called LLanfair, in the 1970s... or is it 1980s? No matter; time doesn't flow in North Wales in quite the same way as elsewhere. Lying just below Mount Snowdon, Llanfair has a...
Boys in Trees: Carly Simon, a Memoir
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10 years ago
Little is left to the imagination in Carly Simon's latest Memoir, Boys in Trees, with regards to her early life and many early loves. Ms. Simon's description of her childhood and youth is a...
The Unquiet Bones, by Mel Starr
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10 years ago
The murder mystery genre, like ice-skating, has a number of "compulsories". A puzzle, of course: whodunnit? This may be rendered more complex (whodunwhat? ... was anything actually done at...
To read or to listen, that is the question...
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9 years ago
I've been an ardent reader for fifty sixty years. (Good lord! ) Then, some fifteen years ago, I discovered audiobooks. And their prices! Ow-w-w-w ! ! ! Despite the cost, I liked the idea of...
White Fang by Jack London.....The reason I became an avid reader.
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9 years ago
We have to go back to the very early 1950's to find the reason for my love of reading. At the time we were living on the Red Lake Reservation. There was no TV, but we did have a radio, but only one...
